Henry I of Castile
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Las Huelgas, Burgos | |
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| House | Castilian House of Ivrea |
| Father | Alfonso VIII of Castile |
| Mother | Eleanor of England |
Henry I of Castile (in Spanish, Enrique I, 14 April 1204
In 1211, Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Ferdinand suddenly died.
When his father died in 1214, Henry was just 10 years old, so the regency was assumed by Henry's older sister
In 1215, Henry married Mafalda of Portugal, daughter of Sancho I of Portugal. As he was very young, the marriage was not consummated, and it was dissolved in 1216 by Pope Innocent III on grounds of consanguinity. In the same year, Henry became betrothed to his second cousin Sancha, heiress of León.
Henry died in Palencia in 1217 at the age of 13, killed by a tile coming off a roof. His sister Berengaria succeeded him, before renouncing the throne in favour of her son Ferdinand III.[5] His body was buried at Las Huelgas monastery in Burgos.[6]
Notes
- ^ Anales Toledanos
- ^ Previté-Orton, Charles William, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, (Cambridge University Press, 1952), 828.
- ISBN 978-84-9704-327-4.
- ^ Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium
- ^ Craig Taylor, Debating the Hundred Years War, (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 87.
- ^ Enrique I, King of Castile, Theresa M. Vann, Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia, Ed. E. Gerli, (Routledge, 2003), 303.
References
- Charles William Previté-Orton, The shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge University Press, 1952.
- Taylor, Craig, Debating the Hundred Years War, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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